| n. | 1. | Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; |
| 2. | Freedom; exemption; | |
| 3. | The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc. |
| Noun | 1. | immunity - the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust" Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
| 2. | immunity - (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease Synonyms: resistance | |
| 3. | immunity - the quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity to criticism" | |
| 4. | immunity - an act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution" Synonyms: granting immunity, exemption |
IMMUNITY. An exemption from serving in an office, or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform. Vide Dig. lib. 50, t. 6; 1 Chit. Cr. L. 821; 4 Har. & M'Hen. 341.
absolution, acquired immunity, active immunity, amnesty, antibody, antigen, artificial immunity, assurance, blank check, carte blanche, charter, clear sailing, congenital immunity, copyright, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, exception, exclusion, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, familial immunity, favor, franchise, freedom, grace, grant, harmlessness, immunity theory, immunization, immunization therapy, immunochemistry, immunology, immunotherapy, impunity, indemnity, indulgence, inherent immunity, inherited immunity, inoculation, insusceptibility, invulnerability, legislative immunity, liberty, license, natural immunity, nolle prosequi, non prosequitur, nonprosecution, nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, opsonic immunity, pardon, passive immunity, patch test, patent, permission, phagocytic immunity, privilege, protection, racial immunity, redemption, release, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, resistance, risklessness, safeguard, safeness, safety, scratch test, security, serotherapeutics, serotherapy, serum therapy, shrift, side-chain theory, sparing, special favor, specific immunity, stay, surety, toxin-antitoxin immunity, toxin-antitoxin immunization, tuberculin test, unsusceptibility, vaccination, vaccine therapy, vaccinotherapy, warrantAbout this site and copyright information - Online Dictionary Home